Public school / Primary
William S Gussner Elementary School
Jamestown, North Dakota
- NCES ID
- 380002100315
- District
- Jamestown 1
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
William S Gussner Elementary School is a public primary school in Jamestown, North Dakota, run by Jamestown 1. It enrols 250 students — the 72280th largest of 532 public schools in North Dakota.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
250
Teachers
19.0
Students per teacher
13.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
23.6%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within Jamestown 1
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Jamestown High School777 students
- 2Jamestown Middle School475 students
- 3William S Gussner Elementary School250 students
- 4Roosevelt Elementary School220 students
- 5Lincoln Elementary School218 students
- 6Washington Elementary School114 students
- 7Louis L'Amour Elementary School107 students
- Enrollment+42.0%
- Teachers+35.7%
- Students per teacher+13.8%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−23.9%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory